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May 19, 2011

Sri Aurobindo has been neglected and misunderstood

This is a scholarly but very readable biography based on decades of research. Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) was a major figure in modern Indian history, though he has been neglected and misunderstood. He was a remarkably wide-ranging and original thinker and one of the greatest spiritual philosophers of all time. A Cambridge-educated intellectual turned mystic, he achieved a sweeping synthesis of the thought and vision of East and West. Such a many-sided personality makes unusual demands on a biographer. Heehs has spent most of his life preparing himself to meet these challenges. He succeeds impressively in almost every respect.
The climax of the narrative is reached before the mid-point of the book in the gripping story of Aurobindo's brief but eventful role as one of the leaders of an early phase of the Indian freedom movement, marked by his year in jail and the famous Alipore Bomb Trial.

Sri Aurobindo, poet and social thinker - Sisirkumar Ghose - 1973 - THE POETRY OF SRI AUROBINDO: AN APPROACH This is Sri Aurobindo's centenary year and it is right and proper that on an occasion like this we ... But why this neglect and continued misunderstanding? The reasons are not one but many. ...

Poetic plays of Sri Aurobindo - Page 180 - Bimal Narayan Thakur - 2004 - His plays, which are often neglected, are the integral part of Sri Aurobindo's integrated vision. It has been mentioned in the introduction that the genre of drama was created in order to facilitate transmission of such knowledge or ...

Understanding Medical Physiology - Page 880 - Bijlani - 2004 - As Sri Aurobindo points out, desires starve in the absence of support from the ego. Surrender Surrender to a superior force, which we may call Nature, God, or by any other name, implies a few assumptions: first, that the force exists; ...

Bases of yoga - Sri Aurobindo - 2007 - Neither neglect this turn of the nature (food-desire) nor make too much of it; it has to be dealt with, purified and ... It is a mistake to neglect the body and let it waste away; the body is the means of the sadhana and should be ...